Best place of course is not to be in one. At least in the bathtub in the basement, cover yourself w/ a mattress.

lightning and tornado warnings and tornados and we only used to get 3 weeks of thunder storms at the end of August. I took a picture of a tornado weeks ago. So far no tornado alert on my phone. Just general thunder and lightning weather warning with the 'if you see a funnel cloud' warning added. But i was going to take a bath and realized i know nothing about where is the safest place or the least safe.

if the number of cars which park under them when the weather is threatening is any indication.

The nearest one to our house has enough space in the overhangs to park about 35 cars. The next one west of us has even more.

VERY DANGEROUS!!!



The reality is: an overpass may be one of the worst places to seek shelter from a tornado. An overpass as tornado shelter can put people at a greater risk of being killed or seriously injured by flying debris from the powerful tornado winds. ... Flying debris become dangerous missiles in the tornado airflow.
The Ohio Committee for Severe Weather Awareness - Ohio.gov › tornadosafety.aspx
Tornado Safety & the Dangers of Highway Overpasses - Ohio.gov | OCSWA



https://www.weathersafety.ohio.gov/tornadosafety.aspx

...i chased storms for years and the first thing we learned is not to take cover under a bridge or overpass. A ditch is best. And inside we were taught in a inside bathtub with a mattress over you. Not so easy if you have a memory foam or sleep number.

the recommendation is an interior room with no windows

Where there lived lots and lots of SPIDERS and they all had GNASHING, SLATHERING JAWS OF DEATH. At least that's how I remember them.

I know spiders are very useful creatures, but they terrify me.

dad told us there were jellyfish but he would walk us through them. I was like "are you for real!!! There is no way i'm getting in the ocean with huge stinging things". Saw a jellyfish when i was in my late thirties. It was tiny but out of the ocean i went.

Although technically that was well east of Oz in Munchkinland - a cruel government experiment in providing segregated housing for persons with growth hormone deficiency.

lacked a brain, heart, and courage.

Just saying.

Yer welcome.

There is probably a nice I-beam to park under

In Joplin we had a few die because the house, what was left, collapse into the basement. Others died because of direct hit to the house.

Depending on how your house was built and if it is going to be a direct hit, all you can do is seek shelter of some kind and hang on.

You need an evac kit if you get buried: laser pointer and personal alarm or whistle to signal search and rescue and preferably some type of helmet and goggles to put on before it hits, a flashlight and weather radio are a good idea too.
We keep helmets in the hall closet with the rest of those things inside and flashing beacons and extra leashes for our dogs and cats too. Everyone knows the drill.
Speaking as a retired nurse #1 Tornado injury - serious cuts to the feet. If the weather looks bad, put on your shoes. preferably lace up boots. Others can get sucked right off.

That's a good thing.

global climate change?

It's going to get worse.

Let's hope climate change becomes #1 in the US by 2020.

Think about how things fall when the roof comes off. If the tornado approaches from the SW, scrunch up in the SW corner of the basement. If there's a collapse of the structure, the strongest parts of the beams and joists will likely form a protective tent around that corner while the junk piles up in the center.

I have no basement, but there is a closet that has a heavy beam above and below it, with internal walls and headers all around it. Feels a bit crowded, but the clothing makes for padding (from flying debris) and all that heavy wooden structure could hold the rest of the house piled on it.

that sw wall in mind as the floors could still go.

Do you have anything like a mattress to cover your head?

It just occured to me i had no plan.

Due to the possibility of it being back images.....

Many still have interest in stuff like that.

But nice of you to say.

A cinder block building is not necessarily any more protective than a wood frame building. Tornado force winds can drive debris completely through unreinforced concrete.

If you don't have a basement, stay away from exterior walls. Find a place inside the home that can protect you from flying debris and protect you from collapsed structure.

The following illustrates what can happen in a hurricane; a tornado packs more force.

building. 4 feet of windows above ground. No window in the sw. I'll duck under the mattress if i get a warning on my phone. But i feel good to now know we will likely only get the least EF tornados and i know what to do. Stay safe everyone.

Basements are common in colder areas where you need a foundation that's a few feet thick. In places where the frost line is measured in inches basements are more rare. When I lived in Oklahoma I ran across only a couple of people who had a basement.

... root cellers. As time went by people converted them into basements.
You had a good foot of ground over your head. That's what was my savings grace.

.....but I'm lucky to still be here.

luck all around.

We’re about to see a trend. Climate change will make some parts of the country uninhabitable.

and didn't hear the siren.

Kansas is in Tornado Alley, but our town usually doesn't get hit, and when we do, it is usually in a part of town not densely populated --fortunately for me, since I live near the town center.

But no tornado. Just storms. Would someone normally hear a tornado getting close if you were not able to see the wind because you are not near a window? I have no clue.

In the Diefenbunker.

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be safe. 360+ rooms. I had no idea it was so big.

Happen everywhere, Barrie, Ont had a bad one a few years ago as did Edmonton. I watched a F1 streak down the main street in a small town south of Tremblant Qc in the mid 1990's. Didn't hurt anyone, but did some major structural damage to structures. Watched another one in Tuscaloosa, Alabama that killed many and completely wiped neighborhoods off the map.

It did not used to be that way at all. Every so often they say a storm system is coming and watch out. Exactly as they predicted there was a dark cloud low over my house at 6PM. There was stuff flying around in the wind which is unusual so i looked it up and sure enough it was a severe storm warning. I'm not scared. I just like a plan when things are pointing in a sketchy direction. It passed by 8 PM. I'm getting good ideas and now have a plan.

'Else' - someplace else.